While this could be true, the roads around the area seem more clogged than before and without more of them being built it would seem they will continue to become more congested, and projections do project based on the entered data, so we will see.
Hopefully the resident’s inputs will clear up any mistaken data feeds.
Easier road ahead, area planners say
With shorter commutes projected, agency seeks residents' input on 25-year transportation plan.
By Tony Bizjak - Bee Staff Writer Published 12:00 am PST Thursday, November 16, 2006
Sacramentans will live closer to work, spend fewer hours on the road and face only moderately worse congestion three decades from now, a new computer-assisted projection shows.
The analysis was conducted by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments as it gears up for a regional 25-year transportation spending plan.
Agency officials said computer modeling found that if the region continues a recent turn toward building more compactly and providing more transit, Sacramento will avoid the kind of bad congestion that long ago engulfed the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
"These numbers speak loudly," SACOG Executive Director Mike McKeever said this week. "This says we have figured out how to give back time to people's personal lives."
SACOG will hold eight simultaneous public workshops tonight at sites around the region to ask residents for input on where transportation spending should be focused.
